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With host down, show red hexagon on the host in the left pane

Add a red hexagon next to the host in the right panel when the host is down.
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written t

"Although the 'prtgblconfig -s ERRMSGCONTROL=ALLOFF' setting can be used to prevent informative messages from being written to user terminals, qdaemon will still (by it's usage of the systell/sysmsg functions) write messages to /dev/console, and I...
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Add Align menu to right click context menu in report design to replicate functionality that is in screen design

It would be nice to be able to align headers/fields/constants, etc. in a printer file (PRTF) to the parent like you can when designing a screen (DSPF). Please replicate the right click context menu item Align (with it's sub menu) from the screen d...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 1 Future consideration

BRMS Enterprise Services

BRMS Enterprise Services - Seems to be issues with the way the node policy works and developers notice issues but developers are stating the product is working as design. Node policy is running for all partitions in the environment although they a...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

Support Subsystem names and multiple Job SubType Enhanced for all API format choices for calls to QGYOLOBJ

All other selection (filter) criteria work when calling QGYOLOBJ except "Active Subsystem" and multiple "Job Type - Enhanced". The issue with Job Type may be a bug, but the Active Subsystem should not be limited to only format OLJB0300
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

QSYSMSG - Array rebuild start and complete messages

We have a program that monitors the QSYSMSG message queue to alert us to critical issues on our system. When a DASD device fails with mirrored protection, the system sends CPI0949 when protection is suspended and CPI0989 when the resume is complet...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Not under consideration

Display Message File Constants in Screen Designer

Our team uses Rational Developer for a lot of RPG programming associated with display files and related text from multiple spoken languages (Spanish, English, French, etc). We would like Rational Developer's Screen Designer 'Preview' and 'Design' ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Not under consideration

Displaying source file member text within the i Project

We would like the member description of source file members either alongside the actual source file member or available in a separate table as is available via RSE for objects on the iSeries. Use Case: We are using RDi in combination with SVN so o...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 4 Not under consideration

Filtering source files and source file members in the i Project

We would like to be able to filter on source files and source file members within the i Project. As RDi is supposed to be a replacement for PDM this is a loss of feature. Use Case: We are using RDi in combination with SVN so our aim is to remove s...
about 10 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 3 Not under consideration

XML-INTO: Add new option to clear DS before loading

Add an option to XML-INTO that clears the DS before parsing the XML data into the DS. This option should work similarly to EVAL and other "assignment-type" functions.Data Structures are typically used to temporarily store XML data prior to taking ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

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